ALBERT C. BITCH IE, GOVERNOR 1239

hundred and ninety-four entitled an Act to incorporate the
Town of Mt. Airy, in Carroll and Frederick Counties, and
the several Acts and parts of Acts amendatory thereof, and
to re-enact the said Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
with amendments," be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

SEC. Q. The said Mayor and Council shall have the power
to grade and pave or otherwise improve the streets and alleys
within the corporate limits, and to regulate the width thereof;
to lay walks across said streets and alleys whenever necessary;
to provide of what material the said streets and alleys shall
be curbed, and how the same shall be done and kept in repair;
they may require the owners of the lots of ground in front
of which grading and paving, laying or repairing of side-
walks and laying or repairing or curbing are to be done, to
do the same at their own expense, and if any owner of a
lot shall neglect or refuse to grade and pave the sidewalks
or lay the curbing in front of his lot or premises, or repair-
the same when necessary, for the space of one month after
notice has been given him by the Mayor or Town Clerk, in
writing, requiring the same to be done, the Mayor and Council
may cause the same to be done at the expense of the owner
of the lot. which expense shall he a lien on said lot of ground
until paid, and may he recovered from the said owners by
the Mayor and Council as other debts of like amount are
recovered in this State by law; they may also require the
owners of the lots of ground fronting on either side of the
street or alley, graded or paved or otherwise improved, to pay
two-thirds of the expense incurred in grading and paving
or otherwise improving the same, to he apportioned among
them by the Mayor and Council, payable whenever said work
may be finished ; such apportionment to be in proportion to
the front feet of said lots owned by them respectively; and
whenever payment thereof is refused the Mayor and Council
may recover the same by law in the same manner as county
taxes are collected in this State, the remaining one-third of
the said expense shall be paid by the Mayor and Council
out of the taxes levied by them upon the citizens of the town
generally.